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THE 'MOUSING OFEGOXIAX, MOSDJlT. SEPTE3IBEB 11. 1911. SINCLAIR FREAKY, EMILIE GRIGSBY'S LIPS ARE SEALED WAED OF LATE CHARLES T. YERKES, WHO HAS RETURNED FROM EUROPE. Mi Mr. Fuller Believes Author Will Be Great Man if He Will , Eat More Meat. Yerkes' Ward Won't Talk, of Her Spcial Triumphs or Snubs in London. . WXMi W BRAIN IS OVERPOWERING SHE IS BACK IN NEW YORK PAPA LAW SAYS f mwn wp. i n. ...i... ii, urn, . '.' " ' ...m V Despite Girl's Reticence, Her Arrival With $800,000 Worth of Gems Is Xot Devoid of Incident. So Duty Is ' Paid. KEW YORK, Sept. 10. (Special.) Her Hps closed about her alleged so cial triumphs In England, where she was the companion of Princess Mary nurlnar the coronation festivities. Miss Emflle Grigrsby. ward of the late Charles T. Yerkes, the millionaire traction magnate. Is back home In e V.,Ir fiha nrrfirixl t h 1 . weak on th Olympic accompanied by $800,000 wortn or jewelry, mucn luggisi two colored servants. v,A In.li.r1 ,iifr ,h vnnld have none of them. They wanted to know about her friendship ror tne r.nncesa and how the royal family entertained her. She would not discuss it. Ever since she landed she has re in ..Miialiin at 660 Park ave nue. the "house of mystery." which yerKPS gave to ner. fn reiusrs i-j tell about her chumminess with Prin cess Mary and absolutely will not talk about her social triumphs In London, which so shocked the American colony, whose members knew her better than the Britons. New Tork Talking-. If Miss Grigsby will not be Inter viewed, however. New York is talking. Members of the smart set are again asking themselves how this pretty protese of a millionaire became so in timate on short acquaintance with royalty and the very cream of British aristocracy. This intimacy was marked at the time of the- coronation; it has not been so since. In fact. It was whispered in London that the King himself took cognizance of the raising of American eyebrows at the social prominence of Miss Grigs-b- and that straightway the American girl's popularity at court bega" to wane. If this rumor be true. Miss Grlpsby will say neither yes nor no. Despite her reticence. Miss Grigsby's return to her native shores and to the house her late admirer willed her was not devoid of Incident or publicity. The customs officials wanted to know why she had not declared for duty dia mond sunbursts, necklaces, brooches, rimes, pearls., rubies and sapphires, ' valued at JS00.000. XtM GrlssbT Explains. Deputy Appraiser O'Connor halted her at the Custom-House while she explained. Miss Grigsby was voluble to O'Connor. So was Hamilton Bus be. Miss Grigsby's lawyer, who had embraced her heartily on the deck of the steamer. Miss Grlgsby explained to the reporters that Busbee was her grandfather. Xo one had ever sus pected it before. Miss Grlgsby said she had not de clared her gems for duty because they were given to her In the United States; she had taken them abroad with her and maintained she therefore had the right to bring them back duty free. She Has Little List. She had a little list written on dain ty blue paper, of all the gems. Deputy O'Connor checked over the Jewels and found the list correct. Miss Grlgsby came out of the Inter view triumphant, but a little pale. The customs offlclals took her word for It that the gems were exempt from duty. They had nothing else to do. They warned her, however, that If she made a. false report she would be liable to prosecution for smuggling. "Oh, I understand that." said Miss Grlgsby. "I'm not afraid." She and Mr. Busbee have refused to make known what Miss Grigsby's plans SOUTH BEND VOTERS VEXED Sweeping Chaig In Administration Planned by Faction. SOUTH BEND, Wash.. Sept. 10. (Special.) Dull business, high taxes and frequent and burdensome street assessments have wrought the voters of this city up to a point where one faction, which has hitherto been in the minority but now tropes to be rein forced by the women voters, threatens to change the entire city administra tion. These and other local Issues have for some time made It reasonably cer tain that a hot municipal campaign is In prospect and this prospect has now been converted Into a certainty by the fact that petitions are being circulated for the submission of the local option question at the city election in Decem ber. It Is said that like petitions are be ing circulated in Raymond. MOTHER SEES SON KILLED Ed-ward Clark Meets Death at Win chester When Steam Pipe Bnrsts. i ROSEBURG, Or Sept. 10. (Special.) Edward Clark, aged 32 years, for the last 18 years employed by Kendall Bros., owners of the Electric Light & Water plant at Winchester, was al most instantly killed late today by an exploding steam pipe. Clark was In charge of a cement-mixer, and was turning on the steam when the valve suddenly exploded. The body was brought here tonight. Clark was unmarried. He Is sur vived by his mother and two brothers. Pewitt. of Roseburg, and Alvin, of Mabton. Wash. Mrs. Clark went to Winchester this morning to pass the day with her son, nd was within a few feet of him when the accident oc curred. An Inquest will be held to morrow. Augustana Synod In Session. MARSHFIELD. Or., Sept. 10. (Spe cial.) The annual conference of the Portland Mission district of the Colum bia conference of the Augustana synod of the Swedish Evangelical Church is in session In this city. The purpose of the gathering Is to discuss church work and means of forwarding the denomination In this section. The new Swedish Lutheran Church of North Bend will be dedicated tomorrow, when a number of the visiting ministers will take part In the exercises. Among those from Portland In attendance are Rev. B. S. Nystrom, Rev. Mr. Sanstead and Rev. J. Richard Olson. MISS EMILIE Woman May Have Stolen Pre cious Painting. WORDS ARE OVERHEARD Tourist, Struck by Strangeness ot Phrase and Peculiar Actions of Strangers, Reports Incident to French Consul. NEW TORK, Sept 10. (SpeciaL) That two women, or one of them, was implicated in the theft of the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre In Paris on Au gust 22, is the theory advanced to the French Consul here by Mrs. btaniey Fleetwood, of New York, who recently returned from a tour of Europe, in the course of which she visited the fa mous art galleries. Mrs. Fleetwood believes that tne painting was stolen, or Its theft con nived at, by one of two women whom she saw standing before the famous picture Just before the Louvre was closed on the evening before the day the theft was discovered. These wom en attracted her attention when one of them remarked to her companion: " 'Oh, let me have Just one more look at my "Mona Lisa.' s 'I was Immediately struck by tne pe culiar remark," said Mrs. Fleetwood, and I watched the two women closely. They consulted together In whispers nd cast sidelong glances at the paint ing. We were alone 'n the gallery at the time, and, fearing I know not what I hastened to leave the place. I am convinced that these women are con nected in some way with the theft of the painting." Mrs. Fleetwood saia tnat sne was re minded of the circumstance on the fol lowing day when the newspapers pub lished the fact that the painting had disappeared. She was Just on the eve ot leaving for New Yotk, and ffhe men tioned to friends that perhaps she ought to toll the French authorities of what she saw. They persuaded her to re main silent, but on her arrival at this port she resolved to tell what she knew. RARE. TIME IS IN STORE rrotitlnued From First Pase.) it from ine to unloose my vocabulary in a way inimical to the1 law. The gathering! That is the word the gathering! Who will preside over these hundreds of tents and their oc cupants? Why. the Mayor! And who Is the Mayor (big M, please)? Now, presidents are elected in the finality by a college; . governors are elected by the people, sometimes, per haps, by direct primary, perhaps by "initiative and referendum," maybe by the recall I am not sure about these terms, but I know along In the ides of November on leap years, we take a long leap In the dark and elect a gov ernor. And mayors? Well, we elect them, too, and after we elect them well, wait and see, wal't and see. Poet Xeeded to Describe Smile. But the Mayor! He waa born mayor. He asks no odds of anybody or any thing nor man nor devil nor beast nor bird nor power under the sea or over the sea or on the sea. He was born Mayor! And the name of the Mayor of the tented city? That question must be a Joke, or else the' questioner is a foreigner, for Albert Tozler was and la and ever shall be the Mayor of the tented city. Did you ever see his honor the Mayor (four caps, please)? in full regimentals, all dressed up In "Mayoral" garb, with the Insignia of his high office reposing placidly up6n his manly breast with his offlcial smile lighting up his coun tenance like a lightning bug in a grain of wheat? No? Well. tb,e official To iler smile Is "all of these," and then some. But I have mislaid my poesy pencil, and the key on my type ma chine marked "press this button for poetry" falls to respond to the press. So I must pass It up to Dean Collins and ask him to collaborate with me. I will furnish the words i, he will supply the rythm. Often a grasp of the "Mayorial" palm and an embraca la the "Mayorial" arms lYMOriSCLEW GRIGSBT. (for I had not soen His Honor for lo! these many days). I was escorted to the executive mansion, which stands- reposes would be a better word on the corner of Wisdow avenue and Looney street in the tented city. Into the audience chamber I was ushered into that sacred hall where the Mayor's subjects bow and cringe be fore him and then borrow his official handsaw or the "mayorial" gimlet mayhap the corkscrew. But I was upon no such mercenary errand bent I wanted a ukase to allow me the privl lege of slaking my thirst at the "May orial" pump. Then I essayed to borrow two-bits from his honor! -Did I sue ceed? Did I? You will never know the full meaning of "hard times" until you attempt to extract a loan of two bits from His Honor, Mayor Tozler, and four-bits! Come off. It would be easier to suck up the waters of the Willam ette through a straw. Albert Gets His Dues. ' Is all of that "airy persiflage" in any way "non-excusable?" Nit For Albert has heretofore and oft throughout his Journalistic, career of some 40 or 90 years hit me belts that counted and I am only holding him up as worth see Ing so that the reader may come to this "greatest fair ever and make all Ore gon proud by assisting to make the banner crowds the greatest assemblage (Ha, Ha!) ever assembled (Ha, Ha, Ha!) In Oregon. And you ought to come. Every Oregonian ought to be here at least one day this week. Our fair Is already one of the noted events of the kind In the country. We might make it "the" event the greatest state fair from the Atlantlo to the Pacific from Duluth to New Orleans. Albany to Send Big Delegation. . ALBANY. Or.. Sept. 10. (Special.) Hundreds of Linn County people are planning to attend the State Fair at Salem next week and the attendance from this county will probably be larger than at any former state fair. Scores of families from Linn will camp on he grounds during the entire fair. AUXILIARY TO ' . COXGRESS OF FARM WOMEN ORGANIZED. Peeresses In Victoria Head Branch of Movement to Better Homes of Agriculturists. COLORADO SPRINGS. Sept. 10. Wo men in the union of South Africa bave been the first to organize an auxiliary to the international congress of farm women which is to hold Its first con gress In this city, beginning October 15, at the time of the dry farming con gress. Announcement was received to day from Pretoria that a woman's sec tion of the South Africa dry farming congress had been called to meet Octo ber 5 and 6 and was seeking affiliation with the National gathering at Colo rado Springs. Among the officers of the African women's congress are Viscountess Gladstone, wife of the Governor General, Lord Herbert Gladstone, patroness; Lady Methuen, wife of the commander of the South African forces, president; Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of the famous Boer General, now Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture for the Union and Mrs. John RIssik, wife of the Administrator of Transvaal Province, vice-presidents; The object of the two farm women congresses is to discuss conditions in rural homes seeking to make them healthier, happier and more beautiful. Labor Commissioner to Go East. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Sept 10. (Spe ciaL) Charles F. Hubbard. State Labor Commissioner, leaves shortly for Lincoln. Neb., to attend the National convention of officers of bureaus of labor, September 18. 1$ and 20. At the same time the factory Inspectors' Na tional convention will be held at Lin coln and he will attend those sessions. Before returning to Olympia he prob ably will visit the museum of safety appliances at New York. He will be home again 'before October 1. Free Delivery Is Promised. MARSHFIELD, Or- Sept 10. (Spe cial.) After an effort on the part of the Chamber of Commerce for the past year, Marshfleld is at last to have a free mall delivery service. 8. H. Morse, special Inspector, has been in the city to look over the mall route, and the question of fre delivery, and has an nounced that the free delivery service will be established. There will be two deliveries dally In the business section of the city, and one In the residence section. Adventures In Dieting Cited as Evi dence of Mental Unbalance, but Good Turkey Dinner Malses .' Great Difference. NEW YORK, Sept. 10. (Special.) If Upton Sinclair would recover his balance, eat more meat stop thinking everlastingly about himself and his diets, he would be a wonder, is the estimate placed on the Socialist author by W. H. Fuller, father of Mrs. Meta Sinclair, who has found that she can not get along with him that she loves the Kansas poet, Harry Kemp, better. Mr. Fuller has much admiration for the Intellectual attainments of Sinclair, though he does think him "strange" In other respects. "He is an Intellectual freak a won der," said Fuller. "Do you know he reads a dosen newspapers a day, and Is reading something or other 16 hours a day? "His union with , my daughter he utterly intellectual, she poetic, human was as if in an electric generator the negative and the positive poles missed the ppark which carries on that trem bling wire between them. Diet Freaks Innumerable. "He decided some time a go. that he would, by experiments on himself, de termine what was the proper human food. He went through the courses vegetarianism, Fletcherism, raw-meat-Ism, and all of them. One night we had him to an ordinary dinner, he chewed a prune for 20 minutes. -"When he came we never knew whether he was on the vegetarian or the uncooked meat or the baled hay diet 'Beef!' he would exclaim 'only poison!' "Yes, I've been to Arden. It may be that It was named from Shakespeare's Forest of Arden In 'As You Like It.' I stayed there a day and a few hours. Everything seemed as you'd like to have it. Congenial spirits, single tax, pretty bungalows, or shacks, nice ooun try, clever people. But I went In Up ton's uncooked-food period. "At night I asked Upton where din ner would be had. " "Why, we don't cook,' said he. If you're hungry, you'll find in that tent over there a loaf of whole wheat bread. Go to that spring 200 yards off and you'll find some butter my wife asked me to get for her. Help yourself." Dob; Gets Tomatoes. Mr. Fuller chuckled at the recollec tion of the indcident and also at his reply, which was: "When does the next train leave tor New York?" Mr. Fuller told how he happened in on his son-in-law one day when he was a Vegetarian. He saw a dog leaning forlornly against a gate, .nd asked the cook: "Doesn't that dog get anything to eat?" "Yes, replied the cook. "There s the i tomatoes still in his dish." "Another time," said Father-in-Law Fuller. "I visited him down In Mount I Pleasant. He was using a lltHe shack on the farm, which had been occupied previously by "help," as his studio or sanctum. At this time, his family be ing away, he also slept there. There I slept I got all bitten up. 'Yet Up ton," said I, 'I heard no mosquitos.' No,' said he, 'they're bedbugs. I'll kill them.' 'To show you how busily Intellectual he was, let me tell you that man had found time to study chemistry and spe cialise in the deadliest poisons. Poison Roots Bedbugs. 'Said he 'The deadliest poison known Is sulphuric acid - mixed with cyanide of potassium. I'll get some.' He got five gallons of sulphuric acid diluted with water and 10 pounds of cyanide of potassium. 'When we mix thse,' said he, 'the fumes will kill any thing. You pour the cyanide on when I get the sulphuric acid ready, hold your breath and run for your life.' T did it. I was sick for a day or two, and when we could enter that shack there was not a living Insect in It "You see." said the admiring father- in-law, "he is all mentality. Why, he carried the dieting so far that once when I asked him what he was eating now, he answered, 'Nothing; nothing, but colft water- since a week ago Fri day.' Meat Diet May Make Him Sound. "Imagine, then, one night last Win ter, when we had him to dinner. Our own dinner was to be a turkey. What to provide for Upton we didn't know. Last I knew he had been out to Battle Creek, and had ideas on 'calorlea,' and that one should take 100 a day. Then he had eaten, not meat, potatoes, cof fee, etc., but things which had pro telds.' etc- ' 'We've got a turkey dinner for our selves.' I told him; 'but the cook can get. you any sort of sawdust or prunes you want." What do you think he re plied? 'Why," said he, 'I've found that the food I can best work and thrive on (I noticed he had lost his peaked. pinched look) is meat!' And what he did to that turkey. taking nothing at all except turkey. I'd hate to tell you. ' It was marvellous. And he'll he a marvellous young man when he gets himself adjusted and sticks to,meat" EDWARD BUTLER STRICKEN Ex-St Louis Boss Who Boasted of Buying Elections Dead. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10. Edward Butler, capitalist and ex-Democratlo boss of St Louis, died at 12:30 yesterday, here, after ' a lingering Illness, beginning with paralysis a year ago.- He was born In Ireland In 1838, and came here more than 50 years ago. He began life as a blacksmith and left an estate estimated to be in the millions. A wife, daughter and son survive. Half in frankness and half in boast ing, Butler often eald that . he had stolen elections in St. Louis for 30 years. Butler was once convicted on charges of bribery in obtaining a con tract. The court set aside the verdict and further prosecutions were dropped. Alaska Storm Loss Xot Heavy. NOME, Alaska, Sept 10. The storm which raged fiercely in the roadstead all night is abating today. Four light, ers of the John J. Sesnon Company were driven ashore, and the oil wharf and pumps wer washed into the sea. The coal wharf at Fort Darts was swept away. There was no loss of life and a few thousand dollars will cover all the damage dona. The Autumn Season Opens With an Elaborate Display of French Hats Original Models Personally Selected by Jlfllle, palmer of Paris) ', Mile. Calmer assumes charge of our millinery trimming rooms as premier de signer. , In order to fully acquaint herself with the requirements . of Portland women. Mile. Calmer comes to us at this early date. Her engagement having been made with the new store in view. Tomorrow we exhibit pattern hats from the following world-famous milliners: Madame- Lentine. Suzane TulboL " Esther Meyers. -Caroline Reboux. Madame Louison. Madame Carlier. And others, also creations of our own milliners. FASHIONS If CLASH Chicago Now Decrees Skirts That Fit Snugly. WALKING MADE DIFFICULT Gown Must Fit Like Glove if One Would Maintain Position, Dress makers Say T-1 Underskirts Are Put Under Ban. CHICAGO. Sept. 10. (Special.) Now comes the information from the headquarters of Dame Fashion, now dated at the Chicago Dressmakers Club, that skirts are to be worn tight this year so tight in fact, that fur trimmed slits, as high as the social position of the wearer will permit will be necessary to enable the victim pardons the wearer to, walk. "Women have naa two years 10 gci used to this sort of thing," said one rirphiaker. "even though they did not become enthused over the directoire or the harem skirt. Some or tnem wno r KiiKi-ectible to cold or modesty may wear silk ' or satin underskirts, but fashion decrees atherwise and we trust they will obey the rasnipn. !hir2-o has wrested the censorship of style from Paris and New York and the momentous question wuai m wear" will be decided at the Fall HOW SAVINGS GROW In order to Illustrate the rapid growth of Bavlnn with 4 per eeat ,n . . w. bavo oomnlled the following; tablet I For For For For Savings R"e f Int'Temt" S Yra. 10 Vr. 20 Yra. 40 Yr. -y-25l !$ 73. $ 162. $ 403.!$1,294. 50 FOUR Per Cent per 146. 324. 806-1 2,588. -qq .. . compounded ggg 650.1,614.15,177. 2M,'S 585.1,301.13,223.10,355. 001 . 1,462. 3,252.!8,070.25883. 1 STARTS AW ACCOUNT Hibernia Savings Bank Conservative Custodian SEMI-CENTENNIAL OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM. OR. Agricultural, Livestock and Poultry Exhibits, Harness, , Running, Steeplechase - RACES FOR $21,000 I'iuncers' Home-Coming Week, September 11-10. 1 Reduced Kates on All Lines. imblfe si G 1 srchondi3G. of teril Only,- meeting of the Chicago Dressmakers' CIub to be held September 18 to 22. Things or rattier the women at the meetings of the club will not move so fast as have been their wont, for all will be handicapped by the tight-fitting garments. It is absolutely essential to one's position to wear a gown that fits like a glove. Chicago says. One of the members of the club said that soft and supple brocade would be , the most fashionable material the imported kind, from $5 to $ia a yard. Hems will be cut in scallops and tabs. Besides the fire color for evening wear, a peculiar purple and a blue witfi a lavender cast will be second choice. Evening gowns are to be elaborate masses of drapery, with . footings of embroidered flowers, bouquets sewed to the train and trimming of fur. "Yards of fur of all kinds will be stylish. Ruches will be fashionable as trimming, especially about the bottom of the skirts. Everything must be snug and fit close to the form. Street dresses will be low at the top. short at the bottom and open at the side or the front" LOCAL RAINS PREDICTED Barometric Disturbance Is Dne In Northwest Wednesday. 1 0. Generallv -n-AatHo,- thA mm 1 n sr week the country over was the prediction of the Weather Bureau tonigni. mho weemy forecast says: i .v.- TTnitA, Rtntfn the coming week will be one of generally fair weather ana normal wmperiur uvo, the greater part of the country. Oc casional showers, however, are prob able along the Gulf and South Atlantic . a i. Knrth TnclflQ states. lutLBia tx n . it, . . . . . - "The next barometric depression of importance to cross the United States will appear in the Northwest on Wed nesday. It will be attended by local rains and be followed by a change to cooler weather over the Northwest and the Central Valley. Second and Washington Sts. Open Saturday Evenings, Six to F.lcht. 4- This Editorial Is from "The New York World" BARGAINS People are fooled by the bar gain counter. The principle of buying things at a bargain is a wrong one. It is fundamentally extravagant. Occasionally at a bargain counter we buy something that is a real bargain. The mem ory of this clings to us and influ ences our future; we come to re gard the acquisition of bargains as a Tyrmanent pursuit. Then again, cmr gambling instinct is ap pealed to. Thus whole depart ment stores flourish like green bay trees. In the long run bar gains do not pay. If any one ad dicted to the habit of buying them will honestly set down all the purchases he has made which have not turned out well, as against those that have., he will be amazed at the result." People who look for bargains invite sellers to cheat them. The more one trTinks about it the more one sees that from any stand point there isn't much more to be said on the subject; and think of ths beauty of getting it all into so few words. Just think it over. Our Method In Selling Glasses Is Not to Catch a New Victim and the Price, hut to See How Well We Can Fit the Byes. THOMPSON S OPTICAL NSTITUTE Second Floor Corbett Building FIFTH AD MOHI11SO. 7 Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine time in ten when the liver it right da stomach and bowel are ngbL n'oTFR'S I ITTLE xff nrrD DTt f C ' k.A Cure. Con- f HTin.ll III,- Indujes-. tion. Sick Headache, and Distress after Eating. Small Pill. Small Dom. Small Price Genuine nut bar Signature 1 qDTFBSI 'r i m v a a 3H ' I 1